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SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1937.lELMORR’S column!—- - I%MY DEAR ELMER: Hip, Hip. Hoorah! A circus is coming' to town. Hip, Hip, Yipee! Yes, siree, folks, and Francis Baker included, good Old Charlie Sparks with his Downie Bros, circusis coming right into the lap of the Fourth of Junely celebration, and Boo is kicking his heels together, and yelling: Saved! With the circus coming, and the regiment of Canadian soldiers with a 60-piece band, that projected celebration starting on Dominion Day, July 1, will get a great big boost when the circus wagons roll into the town on that day, and Mr. Sparks opens up his parlor tent to greet hi^ many Ogdensburg friends. Jerome Harriman, he of advance-man circus fame, .was in the city yesterday and made all the contracts and in- j vited the kiddies of the orphanages to be the guests of Mr. Sparks. Jerome has been coming here for many years at the head of some circus, and by gosh he is so well known that he even calls children by their first name. “We gotta a collossal show,” said Jerome yesterday as he had parked in front of thed began to unreel some real honest to goodness circus lingo of which Jerome is just chuck full of. “We’ve got the best, the greatest, the most entertaining and amusing; the most delightful and spectacular show on earth, and I am not stretching any truth when I say that this year’s attraction is by far the greatest on the road, and you good Ogdensburg people will thoroughly enjoy the galaxy of saw dust stars which Mr. Sparks has assembled under the big top this year to make the old feel young, and young gay, and—let me addoy it, I just know you will. Here on July 1, Dominion Day in Canada, and the day of days in Ogdensburg.”Thank you, Mr. Jerome. Charlie Sparks and Mr. Harriman are always welcome in Ogdensburg where a warm reception is given with the glad hand of friendship by Ogdensburg and its circus loving people. Welcome to our city, Jerome, and if ya want the keys, just say so. You anti the records.winIt was sorta quiet until Jerome breezed into town, but the man hadn’t any more than registered than things began to happen. Why even forgot all about Seharlie and the Donkey baseball game which they will put on out to Heuvelton on the 18th Inst., Friday evening to be exact, and speaking of that event, and Seharlie’s quib which he tacked on to this department via a faint, want it be known here and now that the gent in the rocking chair ain’t so far ahead but what can catch up with him by gosh, and if he thinks that pills and pills and pills ain’t done their work, we’ll wager one hymn book against a marked up score book that he take one Donk and sit on the back, and we’ll take another Donk and park thereon, and beat him around the bases out at Heuvelton next Friday afternoon in nuthin’ flat, the Donk being willing of course. So what’ya Bay, Seharlie, does youse accept the gauntlet, the challenge, the dare, the bet, or what have you? Speak up, or forever hold yer score book. A race around the bags on the Donk, and it would be great sport for a couple of alleged columnists making a couple of jackasses out of themselves for the edification, if that’s the word, for the dear Heuvelton public and cash customers from the environs. Don’t try to wish the challenge on Murph, or any of the others of the chain gang, but stick or well, faint or dizzy, rough riding, hoot-tooting, wild west broncho, donko, busting Elmorr ain’t making an idle jest or being careless with words. How what’ya tink of that, me boy, Seharlie?Hurray, hurrah, Yipee, Yipee! A circus is cornin’ to town. She flies through the air with the greatest of ease, the bow-Iegged girl on the flying trapezee .
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Ogdensburg Advance News
Ogdensburg, New York, US
Sun, Jun 13, 1937
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